{"id":423,"date":"2012-09-02T00:36:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:36:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:36:39","slug":"year-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

1972: The Death of the Automobile<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author\/Editor: John Jerome<\/h4>\n

Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n

Published in 1972, this title could have been written just a few years ago!\u00a0 The author, John Jerome, was an American writer of non-fiction, best known for his work associated with cars and technology. \u00a0The Death of the Automobile is a book focused on the Detroit auto industry, which Jerome called an ecological, economic and engineering disaster.\u00a0 In the preface, Jerome states:<\/p>\n

\u201c Technology isn\u2019t evil, but the uses of technology often are.\u00a0 The car is a bad machine \u2013 and the solution is not to build a better bad machine, but rather not to build bad machines.\u00a0 Yet this huge, wealthy nation is trapped with what is virtually a single transportation system, and to suggest simply abandoning that system is to suggest paralyzing the nation.\u00a0 We have become addicted to automobiles; they have become literally a necessity for sustaining life.\u00a0 How we became addicted, what the future holds for such an addiction, and how we can escape the trap that the addiction ensures is what this book is about.\u201c<\/p>\n

He concludes the book with the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Alan S. Boyd became the first Secretary of Transportation, one of his first official acts was to decorate his new chambers.\u00a0 On one wall, he hung a large photomural:\u00a0 it showed a pair of well-shod feet.\u00a0 It\u2019s a transportation solution that hasn\u2019t had a great deal of technological support in recent years, but it might be the salvation of us yet!”<\/p>\n

What do you think Jerome would say about the state of transportation in 2013?<\/p>\n

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